Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When, after having examined in detail the organization of the Supreme Court, one comes to consider in sum the prerogatives that have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“I am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“There is a twofold liberty, natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt) and civil or federal. The first is common to man… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
